Movies released in 1972| The 14 Amazons | Charles Tung Shao-Yung, Cheng Kang |
| 1776 | Peter H. Hunt |
| Across 110th Street | Barry Shear |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | William Sterling |
| All the Colors of the Dark | Sergio Martino |
| The Angry Guest | Chang Cheh |
| Asylum | Roy Ward Baker |
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava |
| Beware! The Blob | Larry Hagman |
| The Big Bird Cage | Jack Hill |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Black Girl | Ossie Davis |
| The Black Tavern | Teddy Yip Wing-Cho |
| Blacula | William Crain |
| Blood Freak | Brad F. Grinter, Steve Hawkes |
| Blood Sabbath | Brianne Murphy |
| The Blood Spattered Bride | Vicente Aranda |
| Bluebeard | Edward Dmytryk |
| The Body Shop | J.G. Patterson Jr. |
| Bone | Larry Cohen |
| The Boxer from Shantung | Pao Hsueh-Li, Chang Cheh |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse |
| Caliber 9 | Fernando Di Leo |
| The Call of the Wild | Ken Annakin |
| The Cannibals | Kao Pao-shu |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Chato's Land | Michael Winner |
| Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things | Bob Clark |
| Cisco Pike | Bill L. Norton |
| Columbo: Étude in Black | Nicholas Colasanto |
| Columbo: Lady in Waiting | Norman Lloyd |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson |
| The Cowboys | Mark Rydell |
| Crawlspace | Buzz Kulik, John Newland |
| The Cremators | Harry Essex |
| The Crimes of the Black Cat | Sergio Pastore |
| Cuadecuc, Vampir | Pere Portabella |
| The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Dick Richards |
| Cut-Throats Nine | Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent |
| Daigoro vs. Goliath | Toshihiro Iijima |
| Daughters of Satan | Hollingsworth Morse |
| The Deadly Knives | Jang Il-ho |
| Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | Paul Williams |
| Death Line | Gary Sherman |
| Death Walks at Midnight | Luciano Ercoli |
| The Deathless Devil | Yilmaz Atadeniz |
| Delirium | Renato Polselli |
| Deliverance | John Boorman |
| The Demon | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Demons of the Mind | Peter Sykes |
| The Doberman Gang | Byron Chudnow |
| Don't Torture a Duckling | Lucio Fulci |
| Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf | León Klimovsky |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest |
| Dracula A.D. 1972 | Alan Gibson |
| Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein | Jesús Franco |
| Elvis on Tour | Robert Abel, Pierre Adidge |
| Eolomea | Herrmann Zschoche |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask | Woody Allen |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano |
| Fat City | John Huston |
| The Fearless Avenger | Kazuo Ikehiro |
| Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion | Shunya Ito |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | Shunya Ito |
| Fist of Fury | Lo Wei |
| Five Fingers of Death | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| The Four Dimensions of Greta | Pete Walker |
| Four Riders | Chang Cheh |
| Frankenstein '80 | Mario Mancini |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Fritz the Cat | Ralph Bakshi |
| Frogs | George McCowan |
| The Fury of the Wolf Man | José María Zabalza |
| Gargoyles | Bill L. Norton |
| The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah |
| Girl Boss Guerilla | Norifumi Suzuki |
| The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Godzilla vs. Gigan | Jun Fukuda |
| The Gore Gore Girls | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| The Grand Duel | Giancarlo Santi |
| Grave of the Vampire | John Hayes |
| Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice | Kenji Misumi |
| Hapkido | Wong Fung |
| The Harder They Come | Perry Henzell |
| Hit Man | George Armitage |
| The Hitchhikers | Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian |
| Horror Express | Eugenio Martín |
| The Hot Rock | Peter Yates |
| Hungry Wives | George A. Romero |
| Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan | Chor Yuen |
| Invasion of the Blood Farmers | Ed Adlum |
| The Italian Connection | Fernando Di Leo |
| Jeremiah Johnson | Sydney Pollack |
| Joyce at 34 | Claudia Weill, Joyce Chopra |
| Kamen Rider vs. Shocker | Minoru Yamada |
| Kansas City Bomber | Jerrold Freedman |
| King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| Knife of Ice | Umberto Lenzi |
| Lady Whirlwind | Wong Fung |
| The Last House on the Left | Wes Craven |
| Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| The Legend of Boggy Creek | Charles B. Pierce |
| The Lizard | Chor Yuen |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx | Kenji Misumi |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | Buichi Saito |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades | Kenji Misumi |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance | Kenji Misumi |
| The Magnificent Seven Ride! | George McCowan |
| Man of Iron | Pao Hsueh-Li, Chang Cheh |
| The Man with Two Heads | Andy Milligan |
| The Mechanic | Michael Winner |
| Melinda | Hugh A. Robertson |
| Moon of the Wolf | Daniel Petrie |
| The Mummies of Guanajuato | Federico Curiel |
| Murder Mansion | Francisco Lara Polop |
| Naked Girl Killed in the Park | Alfonso Brescia |
| Necromancy | Bert I. Gordon |
| The Night of a Thousand Cats | René Cardona Jr. |
| Night of the Cobra Woman | Andrew Meyer |
| Night of the Devils | Giorgio Ferroni |
| Night of the Lepus | William F. Claxton |
| Night of the Strangler | Joy N. Houck Jr. |
| The Night Stalker | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Ninja Fist of Fire | Wong Tin-Lam |
| One-Armed Boxer | Jimmy Wang Yu |
| The Other | Robert Mulligan |
| Panda! Go Panda! | Isao Takahata |
| The Pied Piper | Jacques Demy |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters |
| The Pirates of Buban | Shōhei Imamura |
| Poor Albert and Little Annie | Paul Leder |
| Private Parts | Paul Bartel |
| Queen Boxer | Yue Fung-Chi |
| Ransom for a Dead Man | Richard Irving |
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Emilio Miraglia |
| Revenge of the Dragon | Joseph Kong Hung |
| Rica | Kô Nakahira |
| Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny | R. Winer |
| Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter | Miguel M. Delgado |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi |
| Silent Night, Bloody Night | Theodore Gershuny |
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull |
| Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox |
| Skyjacked | John Guillermin |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill |
| Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Stigma | David E. Durston |
| Street Mobster | Kinji Fukasaku |
| The Suns of Easter Island | Pierre Kast |
| Super Fly | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Superbeast | George Schenck |
| Sweet Sugar | Michel Levesque |
| Take Off | Gunvor Nelson |
| Tales from the Crypt | Freddie Francis |
| The Telephone Box | Antonio Mercero |
| Terror at Red Wolf Inn | Bud Townsend |
| That Certain Summer | Lamont Johnson |
| Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder | Mehmet Aslan |
| The Thunderbolt Fist | Jang Il-ho |
| Tintin and the Lake of Sharks | Raymond Leblanc |
| Tombs of the Blind Dead | Amando de Ossorio |
| Top of the Heap | Christopher St. John |
| Tower of Evil | Jim O'Connolly |
| Toys Are Not for Children | Stanley H. Brassloff |
| Tragic Ceremony | Riccardo Freda |
| The Trail of Blood | Kazuo Ikehiro |
| Trouble Man | Ivan Dixon |
| The Twilight People | Eddie Romero |
| Ulzana's Raid | Robert Aldrich |
| Un flic | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Under Milk Wood | Andrew Sinclair |
| Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Kinji Fukasaku |
| The Unholy Rollers | Vernon Zimmerman |
| The Valachi Papers | Terence Young |
| Vampire Circus | Robert Young |
| Virgin Witch | Ray Austin |
| Wandering Ginza Butterfly | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| The Water Margin | Wu Ma, Pao Hsueh-Li, Chang Cheh |
| The Way of the Dragon | Bruce Lee |
| The Week of the Killer | Eloy de la Iglesia |
| Welcome Home, Soldier Boys | Richard Compton |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano |
| What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington |
| The Wrath of God | Ralph Nelson |
| You'll Like My Mother | Lamont Johnson |
| You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown | Bill Melendez |
| Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key | Sergio Martino |
| Yuki's Sun | Hayao Miyazaki |